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G. P. ROSE.

RAILWAY s PLIGB BAR.

Patented Jan. 8, 1889.

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(No Model.)

UNITED STATES PATENT. Finca.

GEORGE P. ROSE, OF FEX'ION, MICHIGAN.

RAILWAY SPLICE-BAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 395,923, dated January 8, 1889.

Application filed May 3l, 1888. Serial No. 275,'556. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.:

Be it known that l, GEORGE l). ROSE, a citizen ol the YUnited States, residing at Fenton, county ot' Genesee, State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Railway Splice-Bar,

Hanges of the tread part of the rail.

ot' which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its obj ect certain improvements, substantially as below described and claimed.

In the drawin forming a part of this speei- Atication, Figure il is a perspective view; Fig. 2, a plan with part in section on the dotted line :2 2 in Fig. l; Fig. 23, a crossS-section onv the dotted line l l in Fig 2; and Fig. J: shows the end of a rail at the joint in perspective.

Refcrringto the letters marked on the d rawiugs, A are the rails ol' a railway cut obliquely at the end, as at C, at the joint of the rails. By this means the wheels of the cars bear on solid rail all the way over the joint, thus obviating l the jarring and clicking caused by having the joint or space between the rails straight across. The splice-bans B [it the hollow sides of the rails, but do not extend beneath the rails, as

in another pending application, Serial No. 275,555, but they gradually grow thinner from the center toward the ends to proportion the strength in accordance with the needs, and the bolt s whichsecure the bars to the rails are graduated as to size, the largest bolt being at the center, as in said other application and for the same reasons therein given, and one of the splice-bars-the outside one-has like threaded holes. The ends of the bolts are screw-threaded and lock-nuts are screwed onto said ends, as in the other application referred to. (See Fig. il.)

The splice-bars l are re-enforced at the center, where the joint of the rails comes, Fig. 3, nearly or quite filling the space beneath the On the outside the bar B is still greater rc-en forced by the elongated boss a', Figs. l and 3. The reason that the inside bar at a. is not provided with the boss is that it might interfere with the Vflange of the car-wheel. The center holes Afor bolt a; pass through the re-ent'orced parts a (L and through the slots c in the joint end ol' the rails, Fig. i. Providing the splicebars with this extra re-eni'orcement atthe joint, and one of them with the re-enforcing boss, greatly strengthens the bars at the joint and compensates :for the weakening of the bars at this point caused by the center boltholes.

Having th ns described my invention, what l claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s-

The combination of the railshaving the oblique lappin ends, the splice-lllars re-enforccd at the center and the outer one being provided with the boss, and the securing-bolts, substantially as set iorth.

In testimony oi the foregoing I have hereunto subscribed my naine in presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE P. ROSE. lVitnesses:

GEO. W. LOCKE, E. D. CHASE. 

